Among comic book fans, there’s the joke that the only characters in superhero comics who stay dead are Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben, Batman’s parents, and Captain America’s sidekick Bucky. For everybody else…

The character of Superman has had a storied intellectual property history, having spawned countless imitations and emulations in comic books, films and popular culture.
Wikimedia CommonsMay 24, 2013

Watching films such as Superman Returns or The Day after Tomorrow, you would have seen dramatic sequences of surging water and crumbling buildings. While doing so, mathematics was probably the last thing…